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The Warriors of Sontar

Chapter 1

January 17, 2011

The Doctor didn't notice that the TARDIS control console had picked up something in orbit above the planet. He walked around getting everything ready for his week at school. The first day of the new semester was not as exciting or chaotic as the first day of the first semester. The Doctor was ready for a peaceful and calm few months before he could finally leave. He laughed. Like that was ever going to happen. The Doctor walked outside the TARDIS doors and went off to Tribeca Prep High School for the second week of the spring semester. Nothing really happened during the break after the Vampire incident almost a month ago. He locked the doors to the TARDIS and teleported away to the school. The TARDIS kept monitoring the object in orbit.

The Doctor materialized in his classroom. It was a couple hours before the school would open for the students. The Doctor had started an art project in his room after the first semester ended but hadn't shown anyone yet. He used his transport watch to teleport to the classroom so no one would know he was there. The Doctor had used a perception filter on the room so his students and colleagues wouldn't know what he was doing.

He switched the perception filter off and started his work again on his painting. The walls were painted with mountains covered in deep red grass and there were forests of silver leafed trees lining the bases of the mountains. On the wall with the door, there was were two mountains that stood above all the others. They were the Mountains of Solace and Solitude and just as the Doctor had described there was a massive dome with a citadel inside it. The ceiling had twin suns painted on it. The first sun was finished, but the second sun was unfinished. It was the only part up finished.

The Doctor grabbed a ladder out of the storage closet and set it up underneath the second sun and the Doctor started painting it in. The Doctor started to hum somekind of music as he finished his painting of Gallifrey in the room. After an hour the Doctor finished the sun, and he stepped down from the ladder and put it back into the closet. He took out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the lights. The lights turned to a light burnt orange. The room had burnt orange glow. The Doctor sat down in his chair and the closed his eyes, remembering. This was the closest that he would get to ever seeing Gallifrey again

The school day started as usual and the Doctor hadn't moved, but he had opened his eyes when the bell for school rang. The Doctor turned the perception filter on and the room looked like it did the day that the first semester ended. The class poured and sat down. The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver again and asked, "How would you like to see this room change in a couple seconds?"
"What are you talking about?" asked a student from the back of the classroom.

"This," said the Doctor. He held up his sonic screwdriver and pressed one of the buttons. It squealed and the lights flickered and the screwdriver electrocuted the Doctor. "Galakto!"

"What's happening?" asked the student from the back.

"I don't know," said the Doctor. Everything went back to normal, but the Doctor lied. He knew what had just happened. The school had been scanned by something. He put the screwdriver back in his pocket and walked over to the perception filter and turned it off. The room transformed into the painting of Gallifrey. The Doctor ignored the gasping and questions from the students in his room. The school was just scanned. Why was the school just scanned? The Doctor couldn't think straight. His mind was too concerned. It could just be some kind of routine scan by the Judoon. They did that on the protected planets in case there was any extraterrestrials that were there illegally. The Doctor had finally gotten it cleared with the Shadow Proclamation that he was the defender of Earth during his thirteenth incarnation so if it was the Judoon, he would not be hunted like a fugitive.

But there was a second thing that it could be. It could another hostile alien planning on dominating the Earth. With the Rift in New York City, the aliens would just keep coming more frequently. The Doctor's day went by like it was a dream. Everyone had commented on the room, but he didn't take any real notice to it. He was vacant and distant for the rest of the day. He wasn't comfortable. All the other threats he face since his stranding had been localized, but if something scanned the planet and only he detected it, that would mean the ones who did the scan were in orbit. If they could scan from orbit, they could bombard from orbit. The Doctor had to figure out who was there scanning the planet.

After the school day ended, Alex and Harper were waiting for him outside the door. Harper was wearing the Sixth Doctor's coat that the Doctor had given her for Christmas. He normally would have smile at that, but he didn't. Alex noticed this and asked, "Doctor, what's wrong? You weren't like you today."

The Doctor didn't move, but asked, "Do you remember what happened earlier today when school first started? The lights and electrical problems."

"Yeah, what was that?" asked Harper.

"Someone scanned the school, but I don't think that the school was the target. I think the whole planet was scanned by someone and hopefully their friendly," said the Doctor. He pulled out his teleport watch and said, "I need to find out who scanned us. The TARDIS will have picked it up on her scanners."

"So are we going to be dealing with aliens again?" asked Alex. Alex was getting excited but started to worry when she didn't see the Doctor as enthusiastic as he usually was when things like this happened. He seemed more nervous and on edge about this. Alex asked him, "What's wrong? You seem nervous."
"I have a very bad feeling about this," said the Doctor, "Sure we fought off the Hoixes, Princess Racnoss, the Nightmare Weam, Hanti Slitheen, and Tesla Howard, but this time it's different. I feel sick about this one, Alex, and when I feel sick it's never good."
The Doctor didn't say anymore and held out the watch. The two girls grabbed the watch and they all teleported back to the Waverly Sub Station. When they got there, the Doctor said, "This time Alex, and Harper, don't come with me. It could be a heck of a lot more dangerous than all those others."

"Doctor, come on," said Alex, "I can take of myself. I've done it before."

"Alex, why don't we find out what we are dealing with before we decide anything, okay?" asked the Doctor.

"Okay then. Let's go find out," said the Doctor.

Alex and the Doctor walked into the TARDIS and shut the doors. Alex popped her head back out and asked Harper, "Are you coming?"

"Uh, I'll just wait out here," said Harper.

"Have you ever been inside here?" asked Alex.

"No, I haven't, Alex," replied Harper.

"Come on, Harper. It's really not that bad," said Alex, "Come on."

"Okay, Alex," reluctantly said Harper. She followed Alex into the TARDIS. As the doors shut behind Harper, she froze at the size of the room she was in. It was just as Alex had described. It was an auditorium with a stage and instruments all over the stage, but the center of the stage had some kind of console. The Doctor and Alex were standing around it. She finally unfroze and walked up to the control console with the others.

"About time you came up here," said Alex, smiling, "You should have seen my reaction."

"How was it?" asked Harper.

"I don't really remember, but I was pretty shocked," said Alex.

The Doctor was moving around the whole console. He pressed several buttons and smacked the console with a mallet twice before there was the beeping that was there in the morning. The Doctor saw a medium sized ship in orbit over the Earth. It was within human range of detection so it was cloaked to the humans but the TARDIS was able to pick it up. "Found them," said the Doctor.

"Who are they?" asked Alex.

"Let me see," said the Doctor. The Doctor pressed several buttons around the communications and tried to hack into the communications of the ship in orbit.

"Doctor, what are those things?" asked Harper, looking at the ship on the view screens. Smaller ships were coming from the larger one.

The Doctor looked up and recognized the smaller ships, "Oh no no no no no no! Don't let it be true!"

"Doctor what is it?" asked Alex.

"I hope it's not what I think it is," said the Doctor.

"What is it?" asked Alex.

The Doctor looked at her but didn't answer. The TARDIS dinged and the Doctor pressed a button. A chant erupted through the TARDIS and the interior turned red and the cloister bell started ringing.

"Doctor! What are they?" asked Alex, getting scared.

The Doctor didn't answer, but started breathing heavily out of anxiety, a trait inherited from his tenth incarnation.

The chant continued to echo throughout the TARDIS, "Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!"

"Doctor, what are they?" asked Harper.

"Sontarans!" yelled the Doctor, his eyes scared. He ran out into the Waverly Sub Station and the two girls followed him out.

"Can't we fight them?" asked Alex.

"We could try and we could die," stated the Doctor.

"What do you mean? We've fought other things," said Alex.

"Yes, scavengers and survivors. They were nothing compared to what the Sontarans are."

"Well then what are they?" asked Alex.

"Soldiers. They are a race of soldiers, strictly organized soldiers. They live to fight and to die in battle is the Sontaran's highest honor. They're like Spartans. They're Space Spartans! They are one of the best military powers in the universe. They once actually invaded Gallifrey. I stopped them of course but they could tear down worlds without any opposition. They could bombard this planet from space and make it a cinder within twenty-four hours and Earth wouldn't even stand a chance!"

"That is correct," said a demanding voice from the entrance to the sub station. A four foot tall man in purple and blue battle armor and helmet stood there with a gun pointed at them.

"Sontaran," whispered the Doctor.

"Time Lord," said the Sontaran soldier. Three more entered in after him and pointed their weapons at the people in the restaurant. The first Sontaran holstered his gun and took his helmet off. He put it between his left arm and side. His head was brown and shaped like the top of a potato.

"This one's going to be a little difficult," said the Doctor.

"Commander Zar, go and get the others from upstairs and in the storage," said the helmetless Sontaran.

"Yes, General Styre," said Zar. Zar went upstairs and got Justin and Max from upstairs and went to the storage to get Jerry and Theresa.

"Didn't I meet another Sontaran called Styre?" asked the Doctor.

"Styre is a common Sontaran name, Face Changer," said Styre, "Now we have some questions for you, Time Lord."